CMS Pages - Multiple URLS (/)
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Hi guys, this type of question has been asked a few times before but I couldn't find something that told me what i need so apologies if its a tad repetitive.
I use Magento, and have several pages using its CMS. However, it produces 2 URLS for each page with a simple /.
For example,
website.com/hire
website.com/hire/I know google treats this as 2 separate pages, which would be the better solution.
1. Write a URL re-write for every CMS page
RewriteRule ^hire$ http://www.website.com/hire/ [R=301,L] (Is this right?)2. Write a general rewrite rule to always add the /
No idea where to begin with this3. Add a Canonical tag to the page which i think is possible in magento by adding this to the Custom Design Layout XML option in the page CMS.
<action method="addLinkRel"></action> <rel>canonical</rel> <href>http://www.website.com/hire/</href>
This would make the /hire/ page self-reference and the /hire page reference the /hire/ page I think. Which one of these solutions is the best and any pointers with the coding would be grand.
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Hi,
Far from being an htacess expert, but you could also try this rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^.]+$
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L](off course I didn't invent it myself - it's coming from here: https://github.com/phanan/htaccess#force-trailing-slash )
I tried it here http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ - and it seems to work if url is in the form
mydomain.com/article => mydomain.com/article/If you check with mydomain.com/article.htm - it's not redirected
Could be an alternative if the rule proposed by Andy wouldn't work.
Rgds,
Dirk
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Very welcome and glad it has been of help
-Andy
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Thanks Andy, i will try this on Tuesday after the bank holiday and see if i can get it working. Either way you have provided a workable solution for me so thanks very much!
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Have a try of this:
<code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(html)$</code>
I think this should work by ignoring anything with .html
Give it a go but if not, you may need to wait for someone else to come and confirm it
-Andy
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Hmmm slight hic-cup
I just noticed the pages ending
.html
such as category and product pages are now also being given a /
Would you advise just swapping and using the remove / rule or is there an edit to this code so it only happens to page that dont end in .html
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Perfect. Glad to hear it has helped
-Andy
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Thanks Andy, it worked a charm and testing doesn't seem to show any errors elseware.
I used the 'enfore a trailing slash' version included in the same article you provided which was
RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteRule^(.*[^/])$ /$1/[L,R=301]For anybody else thats interested.
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No need to go with canonicals. A bit of .htaccess code should do it. Pretty sure I got this from Stack Overflow in the past for a client with the same issue:
<code>RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d RewriteRule^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]</code>
Give that a go and let me know how you get on.
Edit - Found the page I was looking for here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21417263/htaccess-add-remove-trailing-slash-from-url
Cheers,
Andy
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